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The vocal folds, also known commonly as vocal cords or voice reeds, are composed of twin infoldings of mucous membrane stretched horizontally, from back to front, across the larynx. They vibrate, modulating the flow of air being expelled from the lungs during phonation.
Open when breathing and vibrating for speech or singing, the folds are controlled via the vagus nerve.
Usage examples of "vocal folds".
If two or more are possible, can you explain how the vocal folds are able to carry different vibration patterns simultaneously?
Voice is produced in the larynx as air passes through a space between the vocal folds.
She looked at him, a cartoon head and body, chin-less, stick-figured, but he knew how to make her husband live in the air that rushed from his lungs into his vocal folds air to sounds, sounds to words, words the man, shaped faithfully on his lips and tongue.